The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The story is true...only the facts have been made up.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Timing:
1:53 (113 min)
6.2/10
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5.972/10
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6.6/10
5600
5600
Country
Genre
Mystery, Thriller
Budget
$5 000 000
Revenue
$0
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Herbert Ross, Arlene Sellers, Alex Winitsky
Operator
Oswald Morris
Composer
Artist
Audition
Rose Tobias Shaw
Editing
Chris Barnes
All team (24)
All team (24)
Short description
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
What's left behind the scenes
- The literary source material states that Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had a daughter, as was the case in reality, but in the film he is depicted as the father of a son because Anna Freud (1895-1982) threatened the filmmakers with legal action if she was mentioned in the film. With her father's death, she lost the right to dictate how he was portrayed on screen.
- The film's title alludes to a medication that Sherlock Holmes abused. He injects himself with a substance consisting of 7% cocaine and 93% saline solution.
- Sigmund Freud extolled the use of cocaine and injected himself with the drug many times a day. Guided by the best of motives and intentions, he even introduced his close friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, a talented physiologist addicted to morphine due to a severe injury, to cocaine. Freud believed that cocaine would help his friend overcome his morphine addiction (this misconception was very widespread at the time), but cocaine did not help him at all, and his addiction to it quickly became a problem in itself, which could well have contributed to Fleischl-Marxow's early death.
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